For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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